It comes as something ofa surprise to reflect that the New York Review ofBooks is now over twenty years old. Even people of my generation (that is, old enough to remember the revolutionary 196os but not young enough to have taken a very exciting part in them) think of the paper as eternally youthful. In fact, it has gone through years of relatively quiet life, yet, as always in a competitive journalistic market, it is the controversies that attract the interest of the reader and to which the history (especially an admittedly impressionistic survey that tries to include something of the intellectual context in which a journal has operated) must give some attention. Not all the attacks which the New York Review has attracted, both early in its career and more recently, are worth more than a brief summary. What do we now make, for example, of Richard Kostelanetz's forthright accusation that 'The New York Review was from its origins destined to publicize Random House's (and especially [Jason] Epstein's) books and writers'?1 Well, simply that, even if the statistics bear out the charge (and Kostelanetz provides some suggestive evidence to support it, at least with respect to some early issues), there is nothing surprising in a market economy about a publisher trying to push his books through the pages of a journal edited by his friends. True, the New York Review has not had room to review more than around fifteen books in each issue and there could be a bias in the selection of

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The New York Review of Books

Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the legacy of late colonialism

Citizen and subject: contemporary Africa and the legacy of late colonialism

Land, farming, livelihoods, and poverty: Rethinking the links in the Rural South

"The Cultural Studies Reader" provides an introduction for students of this discipline It presents a selection of influential and innovative essays in the field by writers such as Barthes, Adorno, Lyotard, Stuart Hall and Gayatri Spivak, with a succinct introduction to each The book encompasses a wide range of topics, from sport to postmodernism, from museums to supermarkets, from gay writing to rock and roll, and covers every important cultural studies method and theory The book can be used as much more than an introductory anthology: Simon During's introduction to the field surveys the history and development of cultural studies, from its origins in sociological analysis of post-war Britain to its present as a truly trans-national discipline Looking at the future possibilities for cultural studies, he argues that cultural studies methodologies offer great potential for confronting such contemporary issues as postcolonialism, globalization and multiculturalism

The Cultural Studies Reader

Official statistics seriously underestimate the number of Nepali migrant workers abroad and both the volume and value of remittances flowing back into Nepal from those workers. Original research by the authors suggests that many migrant workers abroad are working illegally and unofficially, and that the bulk of remittances also flow back into Nepal informally and illegally. The scale of remittances, consequently, is at least ten times greater than official estimates indicate (equal to 13 percent of GDP) and quite possibly twenty times greater (equal to 25 percent of GDP). This indicates the need for a thorough reconsideration of Nepal's balance of payments. The authors illustrate how remittances flow back into Nepal unevenly, contributing to growing inequalities, both between regions and between social classes.

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Foreign Labour Migration and the Remittance Economy of Nepal

Based on original materials collected by the authors during several years of fieldwork, this book makes an important contribution to the analysis of the political economy of Nepal and to the study of underdevelopment in general

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Nepal in Crisis: Growth and Stagnation at the Periphery

Foreign Labor Migration and the Remittance Economy of Nepal

Understanding 20 Years of Change in West-Central Nepal: Continuity and Change in Lives and Ideas

Sumberg and David Seddon, Senior Lecturer and Professor respectively, are at the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. This article originates from a research programme entitled ‘Conflict Between Sedentary Herders and Farmers in the Semi-arid Sahel and East Africa’, funded by the Livestock Production Programme of the UK Department for International Development. However, the views expressed are those of the authors alone.

David Seddon

Papers

Foreign Labour Migration and the Remittance Economy of Nepal

Nepal in Crisis: Growth and Stagnation at the Periphery

Foreign Labor Migration and the Remittance Economy of Nepal

Understanding 20 Years of Change in West-Central Nepal: Continuity and Change in Lives and Ideas

Increasing Violent Conflict between Herders and Farmers in Africa: Claims and Evidence